Three Surprising Insights about Success and Happiness
By Kira M. Newman | July 27, 2017
Tips for Helping Kids Adopt a Growth Mindset
Parents and educators can teach children to see more potential in themselves and other people.
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Keys to Well-Being
Compassion
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Mindfulness
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Diversity
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Awe
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Awe is the feeling we get in the presence of something vast that challenges our understanding of the world, like looking up at millions of…
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Social Connection
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Happiness
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Most of us probably don’t believe we need a formal definition of happiness; we know it when we feel it, and we often use the term to…
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Forgiveness
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Psychologists generally define forgiveness as a conscious, deliberate decision to release feelings of resentment or vengeance toward a person…
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Empathy
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The term “empathy” is used to describe a wide range of experiences. Emotion researchers generally define empathy as the ability to sense…
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Altruism
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Altruism is when we act to promote someone else’s welfare, even at a risk or cost to ourselves. Though some believe that humans are…
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“The greatest thing about projection, to me, is that it comes with a set of instructions for our own growth and happiness. We’ll usually do well to do whatever it is we wish other people would do (or stop doing).”― I Am the Reason My Husband Infuriates Me, by Christine Carter